Gunmen abandon car after robbery
Up to press time last evening police were scouring the lower East Coast Demerara area for three gunmen who fled and left their get-away car after carrying out a daring robbery on a city businessman. Reports are that some time around 19:15 hours, the businessman who has been identified as Parmeshwar Singh, had just finished [...]
Winston Murray throws hat in PNC/R ring
The race for the presidential nominee of the main opposition People’s National Congress/Reform (PNC/R) has intensified with former party chairman Winston Murray announcing his candidacy. He made the announcement on the island of Leguan, his hometown. Former army commander Brigadier (retired) David Grainger, and current PNCR Parliamentarian Basil Williams have already signaled their readiness to [...]
Tortured teen misses court again
Deonarine Rafick, Nouravie Wilfred and Twyon Thomas, the teen whose privates were allegedly set alight last year by three police ranks, again failed to appear in court. The case against the ranks who allegedly brutalised them now appears to be in jeopardy. The matter was called up again at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate [...]
Export earnings on sugar dip, VAT receipts soar
The sugar industry which has long been a bedrock of Guyana’s economy has performed dismally this year with export earnings dropping by 21 per cent as compared to the previous period. This is according to the 2010 financial mid-year report tabled in the national Assembly on Thursday last by Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh. [...]
East Canje men remanded for raping boy, 14
…as new Sexual Offences Act swings into action Two men, Clifton Ramnarine, called ‘Dougla’, 35, a labourer of Goed Bananen Land, and Najendra Isbarran, 28, called ‘Boyo’, of Betsy Ground, both villages in East Canje Berbice, were remanded by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when they appeared before her at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court on a charge [...]
Barama closure will hurt export earnings
- workers will be paid, government assures By Leonard Gildarie News of the closure of Guyana’s premier plywood production line continued to reverberate across the country yesterday with Barama Company Limited (BCL) saying that it may have only a week’s supply of plywood left. Yesterday, labour officials also met with the 274 workers who have [...]
Cop shot during exchange with gunmen, two arrested
Police corporal Emrit Winter is currently listed as stable at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was shot in the hip while trying to apprehend three gunmen following a robbery in Port Kaituma. According to a police report, around 13:45 hours yesterday three men entered the home of gold dealer Farouk Ishmael and his wife [...]
Dem boy seh… Kwame want a boys’ school
Kwame in China. How he get out or how he travel is a secret because nobody didn’t mek an announcement. When dem boys hear that he gone dem ask why he gone especially since Bharrat is de one who does do all de traveling. He couldn’t travel through de States because he don’t have visa [...]
Suspected Plaisance arsonist back in police custody
A mentally challenged Plaisance woman who allegedly set fire to her two-storey house on Thursday night is back in police custody. The woman, Denise Munroe, who had disappeared shortly after the fire started at her 76 Victoria Road house, was handed over to police by residents of the community. Kaieteur News understands that Munroe had [...]
Dr Anthony promises innovations for Mash 2011
The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport yesterday launched Mashramani 2011, promising several innovations to make the Republic anniversary festival one that is unique and different. The Mash theme chosen for next year’s festival is: Showcasing our culture; sustaining our pride. The winning theme was submitted by Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara resident, Marcia Washington, [...]
Guyana backs Bourne to head Caribbean Development Bank
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Winston Cox, is among three candidates seeking to lead the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) for the next five years. Cox, who stepped down in June as the Caribbean’s executive director of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, was nominated by the Barbados Government. The other two [...]
Owners of Upper Level Barber Shop deny drug accused
Kaieteur News recently highlighted another U.S. arrest of “three more Guyanese drug traffickers”. The “traffickers” were indentified as Rondel Hernandez, David Norton and Ulric Anderson. This newspaper reported that Rondel Hernandez was the owner of Upper Level Barber Shop and clothing store. However this information was proven to be less than the truth. According to [...]
People’s Partnership stages protest outside Parliament
A group from the People’s Partnership, including politician and Chairman of Vision Guyana, Peter Ramsaroop, yesterday, staged a picketing exercise at the opening of the Parliament after the recess. The protesters bore placards and they distributed flyers advocating for tax credit for working families. The group has launched a campaign for a tax reduction for working-class [...]
Nine years later … 3,000 Globe Trust depositors to receive deposits
By Leonard Gildarie More than nine years after authorities seized the operations of Globe Trust and Investments Company Limited (GTICL), there is light at the end of the tunnel for depositors with some payments expected as early as next week. According to Liquidator, Nizam Ali, Chief Justice (ag), Ian Chang, late last month made a [...]
Toy gun and cutlass wielding bandits rob shopkeeper
Three masked bandits armed with a toy gun and two cutlasses on Tuesday robbed shop keeper Patricia Bess, 54, of Mai Mai Dam, Angoy’s Avenue in New Amsterdam. According to reports, around 20:00 hrs the woman was in her shop which she operates in the bottom flat of her house when a customer came in [...]
CPCE zeros in on inclusive education
- celebrates Education Month 2010 In recognition of the fact that there is a global demand for an improvement in the delivery of education, the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) yesterday held a forum under the theme “Expanding Horizons – One Team, One Goal, No Barrier”. And according to CPCE’s Head of Department, Social Studies, [...]
Cops beat their own in Plaisance crackdown
A young Detective Constable certainly found out how civilians feel after they have been brutalized by ranks of the Guyana Police Force. The Constable was among several persons who were brutally beaten by two jeep loads of police ranks who raided the Plaisance ‘Line Top’ early yesterday morning. According to eyewitnesses, the cops were in [...]
Mother of five slapped with fraud charge
Appearing before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, yesterday, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court was Evelyn Moore, 45, of 128 Cummingsburg, Georgetown, who was charged with fraudulent conversion. It is alleged that on September 18, last, the defendant was entrusted with two Republic Bank cheques valued $129,159, belonging to Coran Messiah. The defendant took the money and converted [...]
High gold prices put diamonds on backburner
Gold production showed an increase of 8.1 percent at the half year and the budget projection of four percent increase for the whole year is maintained. The price factor was the catalyst driving increased production in the first half according to the Financial Mid Year Report tabled in the National Assembly by Finance Minister, Dr [...]
Jagdeo congratulates Chilean Government for miners rescue
Yesterday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs extended congratulations to Sebastian Pinera, President of the Republic of Chile. This congratulatory message came from Bharrat Jagdeo, President of the Republic of Guyana. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, President Bharrat Jagdeo wishes to convey his personal congratulations on the successful operation that led to the rescue [...]
Wakenaam man fears for daughter’s life following attack by ‘drug addict’
A Wakenaam man fears for the life of his 12-year-old daughter and that of his family after what he considered no action against a man who attempted to attack his daughter. Hemray Chowtie, of Ridge, Wakenaam, said that on Tuesday his daughter was heading home from school when she was attacked by a man along [...]
‘Golden Jaguars’book place in round two – defeat Netherlands Antilles 3-2;
By Franklin Wilson in Suriname with the compliments of Digicel Even exchanges highlighted the opening 10 minutes as both teams strived to get the adrenalin flowing but it was the Golden Jaguars who controlled the flow as the game progressed. They continued to manipulate ball possession and had the Netherlands Antilles waiting to get a [...]
Men caught with stolen sheep in car
Police in Berbice have been commended for their diligent work in cracking a sheep thieving gang. They arrested two men in a car and these have since been placed before the court. According to reports the police on West Coast Berbice were on patrol on Sunday last when around 14:00 hrs in the vicinity of [...]
Pompey gains CWG silver medal
- second placed Abugan fails dope test New Delhi, (Press Trust of India) Doping continued to dog the Commonwealth Games (CWG) as Nigerian athlete Folashade Abugan was yesterday stripped of her women’s 400m and 4x400m relay silver medals in the just-concluded event after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid. With this, the number of [...]
Guyana squeeze past HPC by 3 runs
…Despite fifties from Chandrika (51) & Powell (72) By Sean Devers in Jamaica In association with Mike’s Pharmacy, Jamaica Pegasus & Raphael’s reality The result in yesterday Regional One-Day match between Guyana and the High Performance Centre (HPC) was predictable but the process in accomplishing it was tougher than most imagined and should raise concerns [...]
